3 Questions? from a Texas Engineer

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3 Questions? from a Texas Engineer

Question # 1:?

How much does a house weigh?



Question # 2:

How much weight can a rural two-lane bridge?Hold????

















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Question # 3

SO......WOULD THIS BE COVERED BY

HOUSE INSURANCE,

CAR INSURANCE,

OR,

DOES IT COME UNDER ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE ????

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Location, Location, Location.

"You can fish right out your front door." :laugh:

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it is covered under the drivers truck policy lol and it really is I'm not kidding

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Put some culverts under it, Home sweet home!

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see, y'all yankeys aint the only ones that can have covered bridges, plus ours has a fridge to keep our beer cold while we're fishin':thumbsup:

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Garage door at each end and you have a covered bridge.

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Police will think it's a drug house with all the traffic coming and going...

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I think weight wasn't a problem but the lack of axles to transfer the weight was...and also its funny that the I beams holding the house up are stronger then the engineered beams under the bridge, who would ever think that possible:poke: by the way the house is probably about 16-22#s(on average) but can be as much as 60#s a square foot..so really not heavy at all if your on the small scale and this house is empty and probably doesn't have large stone counter tops, concrete floor slabs or fireplaces anywhere in it....but when you have all that weight on 2 axles if the house is 2000 square foot then that's about 16-22 tons, but by the looks of it its probably more like 1200 square feet

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maybe it's tornado bait, tryin' to lure them away from the towns:poke:

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Haven't you guys ever seen a Covered Bridge before :laugh:! Think, Stimulas Plan for our Rural Community Bridges :whistle:

Shovel ready anyone :rofl:

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I think weight wasn't a problem but the lack of axles to transfer the weight was...

the other sets of axles are on the part of the bridge in the creek you can see them in the pic:whistle:

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I think weight wasn't a problem but the lack of axles to transfer the weight was...and also its funny that the I beams holding the house up are stronger then the engineered beams under the bridge, who would ever think that possible:poke: by the way the house is probably about 16-22#s(on average) but can be as much as 60#s a square foot..so really not heavy at all if your on the small scale and this house is empty and probably doesn't have large stone counter tops, concrete floor slabs or fireplaces anywhere in it....but when you have all that weight on 2 axles if the house is 2000 square foot then that's about 16-22 tons, but by the looks of it its probably more like 1200 square feet

What's your day job:thumbsup:

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A house on the creek, i wonder why the other axles feel out from under it? it is like they did not have any hangers or anything and was just setting under there.
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